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History · Brasher Falls

Brasher Falls’ post office opened in 1840, and 21% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register. Below: 1 old photo or paper from 1865 on.

1840first post office
1on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Brasher Falls began

When was Brasher Falls founded?

1840

The Brasher Falls post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 674186 years
Founding year: the first Brasher Falls post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Brasher Falls’ past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1840: 186 years of Brasher Falls.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brasher Falls’s history is told.

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The story so far

Brasher Falls, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brasher Falls yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Brasher Falls is the largest hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Brasher in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, Brasher Falls had a population of 674. The community is in northeastern St. Lawrence County, in the southwestern corner of the town of Brasher. It is bordered to the west by Winthrop in the town of Stockholm, and to the south by the town of Lawrence. It sits on both sides of the St. Regis River, which drops 25 feet (7.6 m) in elevation through the hamlet, on its way north to join the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. New York State Route 11C runs through Brasher Falls, leading southwest through Winthrop 4 miles (6 km) to U…

Its first post office opened in 1840. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 669 in 2010, 674 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Brasher Falls, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1860s1 item
Brasher Falls (Village); Brasher Business Directory.; Brasher Iron Works (Village); Brasher Iron Works Business Directo…1865Brasher Falls (Village); Brasher Business Directory.;…
Then & now

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Brasher Falls (Village); Brasher Business Directory.; Brasher Iron Works (Village); Brasher Iron Works Business Directo…
Retake this viewBrasher Falls (Village); Brasher Business Directory.; Brasher Iron Works (Village); Brasher Iron Works Business Directo…, 1865

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Brasher Falls

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Brasher1 historic placeB−LawrenceIts storyBWinthropIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Brasher Falls’ history

What year was Brasher Falls founded?

The Brasher Falls post office opened in 1840, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1) and Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.